Anahita Sanandaji
Senior User Experience Researcher at Google
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolAnahita Sanandaji is a Senior User Experience Researcher with a PhD in Computer Science/Human-Computer Interaction and 11 years of experience applying mixed-methods research to product problems. She blends rigorous qualitative techniques (interviews, observation, eye-tracking) with quantitative analysis, statistics, and machine learning to inform design and build tools that improve complex workflows, including 3D volume segmentation. Having taught UX, statistics, and programming and led research at universities and enterprise teams, she translates academic rigor into product-ready insights at scale — now driving UX research at Google. Colleagues rely on her ability to connect technical prototypes (C++, Unity, Python) to human-centered evaluation, and she has a track record of mentoring students and stakeholders through discovery, personas, and journey mapping.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (18)
openstreetmap10
public-transportation10
directions10
dijkstra10
map-matching10
geospatial10
graphhopper10
astar10
java10
nominatim10
pathfinding10
osrm10
linear-regression4
apply4
api3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AnahitaS/anahitas.github.io
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
AnahitaS/Text_sentiment_analysis_R
May 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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